Аннотация
Steven Saylor
A Gladiator Dies Only Once
CONTENTSTHE CONSUL'S WIFEIF A CYCLOPS COULD VANISH IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE 29THE WHITE FAWN 39SOMETHING FISHY IN POMPEII 71ARCHIMEDES'S TOMB 81DEATH BY EROS 111A GLADIATOR DIES ONLY ONCE 137POPPY AND THE POISONED CAKE 183THE CHERRIES OF LUCULLUS 211The Life and Times of Gordianus the Finder:
A Partial Chronology 1
Historical Notes 2 6 5
Natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri videndi. (Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.)
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTusculan Disputations
PREFACEGordianus the Finder, detective of ancient Rome, was introduced in a novel called Roman Blood, first published in 1991.
Over the course of the eight subsequent novels and eighteen short stories of the Roma Sub Rosa series, Gordianus has progressed from the age of thirty to the age of sixty-one. His concubine, Bethesda, has become his wife, and his family has expande...

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